Opera 9 beta 1 released

The beta version includes many new features to the browser, including Widget, BitTorrent, Content Blocking (aka ad blocking), the ability to customize the integrated search engine field, Tab Thumbnail preview, site-specific preferences, and more. A complete list of changes for this release is available here.

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Man your blog post took too much time.
If you want to take my trollish sounding advice, Use Firefox (with Performancing).
And then you can switch back to Opera

Anonymous

April 22, 2006 at 2:51 pm

Firefox may be open source but there is so much tweaking available in Opera that doesn’t even exist in Firefox. In firefox you’d have to get like 30 extensions before you get the refined experience of Opera. And bummer, everytime you upgrade Firefox your extensions aren’t compatible. As for Web standards, I’ve tested Bon Echo (Firefox 2) and it still is not showing properly: Acid2 Browser test
Opera does!

Love the tab-hover-thumbnail view of the website.. Very handy..
I’ve found a small bug which affects my site though 😦
I’ve just spent four days on a new website that worked 100% with Opera 8.54 / FireFox and [shudder] IE. But, Opera 9 beta has troubles with self-resizing iframes by the looks. I know it’s beta, but am I wrong to expect things that worked in the previous version to keep working in something *new*?
What happens is that the SR iframe will not shrink back when content is smaller than previously viewed page. Kind’a defeats the purpose. :`(

Anonymous

April 22, 2006 at 7:22 pm

you comment on acid2, yet Opera has difficulty in “real world” tests, like Google Calender.Passing the Acid2 test means nothing to the common user.

Fools. I meant only for blogging.
Firefox 2 can’t pass Acid2 because it is the same engine as 1.5
Firefox 3 builds (that aren’t publically available) have passed. They’re even mentioned at Opera fan sites.
I use Opera as my secondary browser, it was primary (for a few days), but your attitude brought me back to firefox

Anyone who switches their primary browser because of someone else’s attitude (especially another user) really needs to chill. Use the browser you like the best? If that’s Opera, then bravo. If it’s Firefox or IE, shrug, that’s fine with me.

Personally, I’m glad I don’t have 20 or 30 extensions break everytime I upgrade Opera. And I like the UI better.

As for Google Calendar, Google’s coding nightmare is the issue, not Opera. (Though I would very much like to see all of Google’s services work perfectly.)

Anonymous

April 23, 2006 at 2:41 pm

30 boxes works with 0pera
Kiko works with Opera

If two smaller companies can make their calendar work with Opera when it is not even on there supported browsers list why can’t Google?

Anonymous

April 23, 2006 at 2:43 pm

30 boxes works with 0pera
Kiko works with Opera

If two smaller companies can make their calendar work with Opera when it is not even on there supported browsers list why can’t Google?

Google apparently isn’t the only one doing this. Yahoo and Microsoft are also doing this and cough up messages in a way trying to say that Opera is the wrong browser.
@Charlie. I only use 9 extensions (mainly for research purposes like Clipmarks, Stumble Upon). I agree about the Google comment. I guess Google’s “DO NO EVIL” isn’t in effect anymore in 2006.
@Daniel. Ok.

Google’s GMail doesn’t work in Opera 9 Beta so well, either. And that is after a lot of effort to try to make it work, which it now does, but just doesn’ty look so nice. Some of the images don’t reapeat properly and what not. It’s just an annoyance to use Opera in certain instances, especially such critical ones such as web based email.
I would like to see Opera pull ahead of its competition, but that is just not going to happen until they overcame the compatibility issues.

Also is there a way to have the highlighted text search function that opens from the right click context menu open in a new tab while having the links opened from bookmarks or other links open in the same tab that you’re focused on?